Found objects, chance creations, ready-mades (mass-produced items promoted into art objects, such as Duchamp's "Fountain"-urinal as sculpture) abolish the separation between art and life. The commonplace is miraculous if rightly seen.

Only poetry can measure the distance between ourselves and the Other.

I'm not a stickler for truth. To me, lying in poetry is much more fun. I'm against lying in life, in principle, in any other activity except poetry.

Poetry: three mismatched shoes at the entrance of a dark alley.

There are people who live inside their heads and their intellects. It's something one is born with and stuck with. It's not something you make a decision about.

We name one thing and then another. That’s how time enters poetry. Space, on the other hand, comes into being through the attention we pay to each word. The more intense our attention, the more space, and there’s a lot of space inside words.

Insomnia is an all-night travel agency with posters advertising faraway places.